Short: Generate tag files of source code Author: dhiebert@users.sourceforge.net (Darren Hiebert) Uploader: polluks sdf lonestar org (Stefan Haubenthal) Type: dev/c Version: 5.5 Requires: regex.library Architecture: m68k-amigaos Optional: CygnusEd Exuberant Ctags is a multilanguage reimplementation of the much-underused ctags(1) program and is intended to be the mother of all ctags programs. It generates indexes of source code definitions which are used by a number of editors and tools. The motivation which drove the development of Exuberant Ctags was the need for a ctags program which supported generation of tags for all possible C language constructs (which no other ctags offers), and because most were easily fooled by a number of preprocessor contructs. Exuberant Ctags offers the following features: 1. It supports the following languages: Assembler, AWK, ASP, BETA, Bourne/Korn/Z Shell, C, C++, C#, COBOL, Eiffel, Erlang, Fortran, Java, Lisp, Lua, Makefile, Pascal, Perl, PHP, PL/SQL, Python, REXX, Ruby, Scheme, S-Lang, SML (Standard ML), Tcl, Vera, Verilog, Vim, and YACC. 2. It is capable of generating tags for virtually all C language constructs. 3. It is very robust in parsing code. In particular, the C/C++ parser is far less easily fooled by code containing #if preprocessor conditional constructs, using a conditional path selection algorithm to resolve complicated situations, and a fall-back algorithm when this one fails. 4. Supports output of Emacs-style TAGS files (i.e. "etags"). 5. User-defined languages, using Posix regular expressions. 6. Supports UNIX, MSDOS, Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP, OS/2, QNX, Amiga, QDOS, RISC OS, VMS, Macintosh, and Cray. Some pre-compiled binaries are available on the web site.